Drawing on your reflection of professional identities in your formative assessment, critically evaluate the importance of one or more factors in depth by discussing the changing relationships and interactions between education, work and identity

Drawing on your reflection of professional identities in your formative assessment, critically evaluate the importance of one or more factors in depth by discussing the changing relationships and interactions between education, work and identity, demonstrating a critical awareness of and theoretical engagement with key issues covered in the module. You should also consider how your professional identity is socially and contextually constructed by referring to relevant concepts covered in Week 7. You should present the following clearly:

1. Draw on the references you identified in your formative assessment, identify the aspects/ factors related to the relationship between education, work and identity that you will consider in your essay.
2. How do the chosen factors that you will discuss in this essay define your professional identity? What is their relationship to education and work? How do the social and contextual factors affect your professional identity?
3. What are the other debates about this relationship? You need to acknowledge them to locate your topic in relevant discussions, even though they may not be very relevant to your own experience.
4. Explain why these other definitions are less relevant to your own experience and reflect on the relationship between work, identity and education that reflects the way you have experienced professional identity formation.

You may find the article below helpful as an example to critically reflect and analyse your own professional identity.

Hughes, B.H., 2013. Making sense of professional identity through critical reflection: a personal journey

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. Reflective Practice, 14(3), pp.336-347.

Module outcome assessed:

MO1: discuss how education is situated within the wider changes to society, work conditions and economic developments

MO2: explain the link between societal changes, expectations from education and professional identities

MO3: critique the influence of socio-economic, educational and work-related factors on their own professional identities, as well as those of others

Useful Resources:

Read: Caza, B. B., & Creary, S. (2016). The construction of professional identity

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. In A. Wilkinson, D. Hislop, & C. Coupland (Eds.), Perspectives on contemporary professional work (pp. 265–281). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

we have learned from the micro-lecture, professional identity is socially constructed, subject to the influence of various social and contextual factors. Read the texts below to explore the role of gender, race, language and context in the construction of teacher identity in detail. For the purpose of the activity that follows on the next page, choose one article to read however, it is strongly recommended that you engage with both of them to develop a broader understanding of the construction of teacher identity.

Read one of the articles below:

1. Luke Lawrence & Yuzuko Nagashima (2020) The Intersectionality of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Native-speakerness: Investigating ELT Teacher Identity through Duoethnography
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3. , Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 19:1, 42-55

Or

1. Brown, R. and Heck, D., 2018. The construction of teacher identity in an alternative education context
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3. . Teaching and Teacher Education, 76, pp.50-57.
4. Luke Lawrence & Yuzuko Nagashima (2020) The Intersectionality of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Native-speakerness: Investigating ELT Teacher Identity through Duoethnography
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6. , Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 19:1, 42-55

Or

1. Brown, R. and Heck, D., 2018. The construction of teacher identity in an alternative education context
2. (Links to an external site.)
3. . Teaching and Teacher Education, 76, pp.50-57.

While you write about your multiple identities, please refer to Caza and Creary’s (2016)

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structures for representing multiple professional identities as well as your gender, race, and other relevant concepts covered in this week’s teaching content.

Read

1. Beauchamp, C. and Thomas, L., 2009. Understanding teacher identity: An overview of issues in the literature and implications for teacher education. Cambridge journal of education
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3. , 39(2), pp.175-189.
4. Slay, H.S. and Smith, D.A., 2011. Professional identity construction: Using narrative to understand the negotiation of professional and stigmatized cultural identities
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6. Slay, H.S. and Smith, D.A., 2011. Professional identity construction: Using narrative to understand the negotiation of professional and stigmatized cultural identities. Human relations, 64(1), pp.85-107.